Holly Golighty's Life Mantras

A Poem by Marie Harrison

Lessons on being a woman and life

Holly Golightly’s

Life Mantras

From Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s

"Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department."

"If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls."

"For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks."

“Every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

"My yardstick is how somebody treats me."

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."

“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."

“The army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.”

“Rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

“A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."

“Should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two."

© 2011 Marie Harrison

Author's Note

A few of favorite quotes from Truman Cappote's charachter Holly Golightly in
Breakfast At Tiffany's. Officially not included in the Kerry's Challenge #3 for not being original work.

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?	loved it, my fav Should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two Posted 13 Years Ago loved it, my fav Should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two Rating /100

Thea	Very creative! One unique style! :))) I really enjoyed reading this... Posted 13 Years Ago Very creative! One unique style! :))) I really enjoyed reading this... Rating /100